THE SLAUGHTERMEN’S DEMANDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2710, 14 January 1910, Page 5

THE SLAUGHTERMEN’S DEMANDS.

THE POSITION IN WELLINGTON

[Bull P 11253 ASSOCIATION.j WELLINGTON, Jan. 13. Matters affecting the new demands of the Slaughtermen's Federation are practically at a standstill for the time being. The Council of Conciliation will meet again on Saturday to further consider the fjosition, while there will be a meeting in Wellington to-morrow of representatives of employers from various parts of the Dininion to consider what course it will be -most advisable to pursue. The impression appears to have got abroad in some quarters that the Wellington Council of Conciliation will make recommendations to apply tortile industry throughout the Dominion. This is not s o. The Council will simply deal with the industry in so far as it is concerned in the Wellington industrial district, but no doubt whatever decision is arrived at will have considerable influence on the decisions at other centres.

From what can be learned from those in a position to know, there appears a reasonable prospect of the difficulty being satisfactorily settled locally without a strike. It is reported that the granting of the Union’s demands of 25s a hundred for killing, and the eighthour day. by the local employers, will not necessarily mean that members of the local Union will be content. The Union authorities maintain that the dispute is not merely one as between the "Wellington employers and the Union, hut a Federation dispute, there, fore no industrial union will be content to accept 25s and the eight-heur day unless these terms are conceded nil round. This is likely to protract the settlement of the trouble.